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Only one new series premiered this week over the last 70 years, a long-running newsmagazine that is still on the air 30 years later. The show has endured and survived scandals, shifting from current events news to true crime stories, and has even found itself parodied on Saturday Night Live. Read on to learn a bit more!
1952
- No new series premiered this week in 1952.
1962
- No new series premiered this week in 1962.
1972
- No new series premiered this week in 1972.
1982
- No new series premiered this week in 1982.
1992
March 31 – Dateline NBC
- Anchors: Jane Pauley (March 31, 1992–May 13, 2003), Stone Phillips (March 31, 1992–July 2, 2007), Tom Brokaw (1994–2004), Katie Couric (1994–2006), Natalie Morales (2004–2021), Ann Curry (June 24, 2005–September 16, 2011), Matt Lauer (1997–2017), Willie Geist (2014–present), Meredith Vieira (2006–present), Kate Snow (2015–present), Craig Melvin (2016–present), Lester Holt (September 23, 2011–present)
- Synopsis: Weekly American television newsmagazine/reality legal show.
- Network: NBC
- Broadcast History: Thirty seasons
- Trivia: Previously the network’s flagship newsmagazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories. The show has been used to fill time slots after the cancellation of a program. The show aired its first docuseries, ‘The Widower’, in February 2021. By mid-1999, the program aired five nights a week but by 2001 editions were removed from the schedule due to viewer exhaustion and the rise of popular and less costly reality shows. The original Tuesday edition was eliminated in 2004. To capitalize on the show’s popularity, NBC began packaging reruns for CNBC and MSNBC. The show originally used the same set as NBC Nightly News, but when the Today show moved to a new studio in 1994, Dateline moved into that space and got a new set. General Motors sued NBC over a Dateline report that was found to have faked footage of Chevrolet pickup trucks exploding on impact. Chris Hansen hosted a series of special reports under the titles ‘To Catch a Predator’, ‘Wild Wild Web’ and ‘To Catch a Con Man’. Richard Engel hosted ‘The Real Blacklist’ whcih was used as a tie-in to the scripted drama The Blacklist.
2002
- No new series premiered this week in 2002.
2012
- No new series premiered this week in 2012.
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